i'm giving my opponent lots of options to think about.  i think this to be an excellent line to be tested in cc.  playing positional chess.   yet to do a DPA.  of course in aiming for this position i had to be careful of the variations stemming from this position... that the tactics work out okay... i had committed to playing this playing this position on the 20th move.  so obviously i felt i may have some chances here and if it is just a draw i will have to try my backup line in b90 in which i will have some chances.

there was a force draw line some moves back in which black has to force a perpetual in the end, however it would have been easy to miss the existence of this draw line, but a few moves into the line black would find the draw quite easily.

rc8, nf5 slight surprises, otherwise no surprises so far.  i feel the pressure is on black to make the decisions.  not a simple position to analyze with engines.

may be away a few days.

the current position is kind of the point of my previous play.

also, how did my opponent gain 10+ hours after his last move, perhaps quite a bit more, could someone look into this, thanks!

further it seems like I gained slightly more than the increment with my last move.  

you're right.  i was playing for endgame chances in which i would have chances based on my queenside passers, plus the engine scores being in black's favor, it's simple to make a mistake and play into an endgame lost for Black.  you played into my main line exactly my calcualations from move 20 on ...nf5 when that was play around move 26, which i guess not much a surprise, many positions are forcing.  f4 i think i recall it was move 24 i worked out to a force draw, it's a pretty line.  objectively this is a small improvement for white, bc this endgame is marginally worse for white so i think.  12. g5 is a slight improvement for white imo but i know that the mainline after 12...b4 and 23. Bd4 is 100% draw [ even nf3 works out to a book draw here... for black on move 24 or 25 i forgot ].  i think white has another way to make black's position to make matters unpleasant for Black in mainline B90 than the line i played, however, i felt like the line i played was the more interesting test for me of this 12. rg1 idea, championed by anand and a few others, one point of which 12...b4 is dubious.  i didn't like rac8 much bc the rooks belong on b8 and c8 on my understanding as the f8 rook does not belong on f8 in the positions succeeding nd5 in this game, and plus black has an alternative line which i thought is a bit easier on black.  however, there is nothing concrete here for white in the text opening lines succeeding 13...rc8 and ruben played this completely accurately its seems to me.

will have to reevaluate my concept on 20.rg4 but this is completely consistent to how i learned these positions.  more likely i will play 12. g5 in future and play a position in which i can squeeze black from here, i have a nice concept here which makes black's life unpleasant, maybe an improvement of sorts in moves 13-23 for white... still i felt Black should hold in the end, although maybe not so easy.... so back to the drawing board a bit on my approach should i see b90 again.

i will play things out a few more moves, after all i would consider black slightly better in this position, but there are few chances for mistakes of course.

well played ruben!

good point.

OK
I never will comment again.
Sorry.
I think offer draw is with command in xfccplay.
Anyway, is same for me, draw or continue, it is draw.

I always wondered about this Garvin. Many times this happens like what these players said or something like "This is sure looking like a draw, don't you think?" Now what was that? Is it a draw offer that we can accept? It sound more like a feeling out process to see what the other person is thinking without making an "official" draw offer.  In this game, which is dead draw according to both players, neither one wants to be the first to offer. So they keep on playing, that drives me nuts! There is no shame in making a draw offer. Make it "ONCE" if it is declined then I think the ball in in their court and it's up to them to offer the next time.

> Also, on here draw offers should always be offered by marking the check box in xfccplay for draw offers.

This is the important point, since this is not OTB and it was stated that draw offers could only be set by using xfccplay. So Ruben's comment is ok.